Hi, It can happen that way as well. turning VO off then back on will work in this case as well. As I mentioned though, you may need to press VO-f5 more than twice to get it speaking once again.
Later... On 2010-10-17, at 4:20 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > I have this problem as well, and my spoken alerts are turned off so that is > not the issue here. For me,VO reads the message and I am able to close the > dialog, but about 30 seconds later I lose all voiceover feedback. I have > sited assistance take a look and there are still at least 10 minutes worth of > power according to the status menu icon. Yet voiceover won't speak until I > plug the computer in. > > On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > You can determine what this message says by turning VO off then back on > again. As Anne mentioned, there ends up being a conflict between the Spoken > Alerts and VO, and VO loses that battle. Just press VO-f5 to turn VO off > then wait a couple of seconds, and VO-f5 to turn it back on and the message > will still be there, you may need to do the Window Chooser to bring focus to > it though. Sometimes it takes a few extra times of pressing VO-f5 and you > won't hear any verbal feedback from VO until it turns back on,but it will > eventually work. Simply pressing return in this case will not dismiss the > dialog. As well, just FYI, it really says "System UI" as in System User > Interface blah blah blah. Sorry, just thought I'd clear that up too. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2010-10-17, at 1:03 PM, Shen wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> Wondering if anyone is having the same problem with VoiceOver using their >> MacBook. If the battery gets below a certain level, a message will popup. It >> says, "System Wide Server: You are running on reserved power ...", blah blah >> blah. >> Everrytime when this message comes up, VoiceOver stops talking. I can't get >> it to say anything. The only way to get it to work again is to plug in the >> adapter. But I know that when this message pops up, it's a dialogue box and >> there is an OK button you can press. >> But VoiceOver stops working and I can't move to it. >> Anyone have this problem and how you can navigate when VoiceOver stops >> working? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
